Now threatening citizens for what they post online, one would hardly believe that England had once possessed a hard-won ...

Three rare Magna Cartas will go on display to celebrate the 800th anniversary of a 1225 issue. Durham Cathedral will exhibit ...

Three Magna Cartas are set to go on display at Durham Cathedral for the first time in eight years next summer.

To try to keep the peace with rebellious barons and landowners, King John agreed to the Magna Carta in 1215. It was the first written document that established the rule of law and limited the king ...

While manuscript copies had been in circulation since 1215, the first printed Magna Carta didn’t appear until 1508. Thus, this Redman printing and the 1556 Richard Tottel printing also featured in the ...

The BBC has asked Ms Quinn for comment. Magna Carta, signed in 1215 by King John, was a royal charter of rights designed to bring peace between the King and his barons. Although it is one of the ...

And on 15 June, 1215, they met the king at Runnymede, by the Thames in Surrey, and demanded he sign a peace treaty Magna Carta. John agreed, and for the first time the principle was established ...

the effect of Magna Carta on widows and property, and the course of criminal justice before 1215. The volume concludes with the first critical edition of an open letter from King John explaining his ...